At 08:48 AM 10/23/01 -0400, myke predko wrote:
>David Van Horn wrote:
> >
> > This may be what's holding the traffic.
> > I work in assembler, and find the PIC's internals unbearable.
> > In code where I am using a given pin for input and output, the bank
> > swapping is awful.
> > I cringe at each bank swap, thinking of the four AVR instructions that
> > would have gone there, all to do a port operation that is much more
> > complicated (the read-mod-write) than on the AVR.
>
>I guess it's a difference in how we think, but I found the AVR to be
>needlessly complicated in how it implements the 32 GPRs to be totally
>non-logical.

I don't get what you mean here.
I really dislike having to funnel everything through the W register.


You get three pointer pairs, a register for the LPM instruction, and the
rest are GP registers.
There are a few instructions that only work on the upper half, but that's
seldom an issue.


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